[meta-intel] [dizzy][PATCH 2/3] meta-crystalforest: add qat preferred provider

Ong, Boon Leong boon.leong.ong at intel.com
Thu Jul 23 16:31:48 PDT 2015


>Your cover letter said crystal forest depends on qat15. Why are we setting it to
>qat16 here?

Crystal-forest depends on qat15
Highland-forest depends on qat16

Qat16 is chosen as default because that is to support coleto creek which is newer chipset.

>
>Is there a reason we are doing this as qat15 and qat16 instead of just having
>two qat recipes with different versions and setting the
>PREFERRED_VERSION_qat in the machine config?
>
>e.g.
>
>qat_15-1.7.0-30.bb
>qat_16-2.2.0-30.bb
>
>PREFERRED_VERSION_qat ?= "15-%"
>
>There shouldn't be a need for a virtual/qat at all.

This is from discussion in the past with Saul on splitting the recipe into qat15 and qat16
so that we can have those named folders containing versioned patches accordingly.
meta-crystalforest/recipes-extended/qat/qat15
meta-crystalforest/recipes-extended/qat/qat16







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